Deaf movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant deaf movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, suspenseful, emotional and sincere films and TV shows about / with deaf, deafness, mute or deaf, sign language, disability, youth, family relations, hopes, mother daughter relationship and suspense plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as deaf: Switched at Birth (2011), The Tribe (2014), Children of a Lesser God (1986), A Silent Voice (2016), The Bélier Family (2014), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), Hush (2016), A Quiet Place Part II (2020), CODA (2021), Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008).
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case ...
Style:
touching, serious, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
deaf, sign language, relatives, mute or deaf, teenage life, social relations, school, friends, parents and children, best friends, switched at birth, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, kansas city
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11K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through the hierarchy of the school’s network dealing with crimes and prostitution, the Tribe. By taking part of several ...
Style:
disturbing, depressing, surreal, art house, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
boarding school, deaf, prostitution, bullying, mute or deaf, gang, prostitute, sign language, deaf mute, illegal abortion, adolescence, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ukraine, kiev ukraine
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs. Will her ...
Style:
touching, realistic, compassionate, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
deaf, sign language, disability, teacher, love, deafness, couple relations, communication problem, couples, opposites attract, love and romance, mute or deaf ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new england, maine, usa
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Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya ...
Style:
anime, touching, sincere, romantic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
bullying, teenager, deaf, sign language, disability, high school, friendship, japanese school, japanese schoolgirl, coming of age, suicide attempt, teenage girl ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a ...
Style:
touching, suspenseful, semi serious, emotional, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
sign language, coming of age, deaf, teenage girl, teenager, teacher, moral dilemma, follow your dream, teenage life, audition, family life, deafness ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, australia, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, not serious, feel good ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
deaf, disability, murder, chase, farce, friendship, blindness, blind man, witness, mute or deaf, deafness, odd couple ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, manhattan new york city
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141K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, deaf, home invasion, suspense, trapped, survival, murderer, deafness, female protagonist, masked killer, murder, writers ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, apocalyptic, anamorphic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, suspense, alien, deaf, silence, survival, monster, survival horror, alien creature, deafness, creature, alien invasion ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
new york, usa, new york state, america
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141K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, sad, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sign language, deaf, mute or deaf, coming of age, family relations, teenager, deafness, women, family problems, parents and children, female singer, moral dilemma ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.
Style:
captivating, ambiguous ending, entertaining
Plot:
deaf, medical examination, parent child relationship, deaf child, therapy, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, treatment, problem solving, family conflict, family relations, pride and honor ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A coming of age drama following the life of Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Wrestling Championship.
Style:
uplifting, captivating, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
deaf, wrestler, sport, mute or deaf, underdog, overcoming, human spirit, ambition, athlete's life, against the odds, contests and competitions, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye is an American television series that premiered in 2002 on the PAX Network. The show ended in May 2005 due to PAX's decision to halt the production of original programming. It was one of the two highest rated shows on the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
deaf, agent, handicapped, fbi, special agents, police investigation, fighting crime, disability, mute or deaf, misfit, law enforcement, deafness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Reasonable Doubts is a police drama broadcast in the United States by NBC that ran from 1991 to 1993.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
deaf, lawyer, legal, district attorney, disabled person, police, handicapped, police detective, partners against crime, law enforcement, mute or deaf, human ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A deaf actor who plays a superhero on a TV show must look beyond the cape to inspire a deaf boy to believe in himself.
Style:
serious, captivating, sincere, realistic
Plot:
deaf, heroes, tv show, friendship between boys, discrimination, teenager, father son relationship, sign language, youth, superhero, elementary school, actor ...
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.
Style:
scary, rough, serious, brutal, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rape and revenge, supernatural, gang rape, vengeance, deaf, back from the dead, ghost, gang, revenge, violence spree, rivalry, apache indian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young girl (Kim Sae-Ron) is kidnapped by a serial killer (Jung Kyoung-Ho). The serial killer uses manholes to kidnap and kill his victims. The young girl's older sister (Jung Yu-Mi) tries to save her before it's too late.
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, suspenseful, tense, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, missing person, deaf, kidnapping, sewer, suspense, obsession, woman in danger, sister, violent, murder, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story:
Angry Boys is an Australian television mockumentary series written by and starring Chris Lilley. Continuing the mockumentary style of his previous series, the show explores the issues faced by young males in the 21st century – their influences, ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, sitcom, witty ...
Plot:
surfing, twins, brother brother relationship, deaf, stepfather stepson relationship, racial slur, homosexual, adolescence, mother son relationship, buddies, youth, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, ...
Style:
emotional, sweet, realistic, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
single parent, coming of age, disability, deaf, friendship, father son relationship, life & death, stranger, abusive husband, boy, letter, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland, europe, glasgow scotland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple whose son had been diagnosed as mentally retarded, and was institutionalized, are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is in fact deaf.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
sign language, deaf, coming of age, youth, family relations, misdiagnosed, family problems, disability, spouse leaving, hopes, mute or deaf, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
ohio, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small ...
Style:
gothic, thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
deaf, loneliness, racism, coming of age, disability, suicide, disabled person, doctor, african american, deafness, drifter, sign language ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, alabama, georgia
Is relevant ?
10K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A criminal who runs a brothel becomes obsessed with a beautiful college student. When she rejects him he sets her up by introducing her to a loan shark and when she can't pay, she is forced into working in the brothel. But when she gets the ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, psychological, erotic, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitution, obsessive love, eroticism, love, obsession, pimp, sex, revenge, sexual abuse, fall in love, deaf, mad love ...
Place:
tokyo, seoul, south korea
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman with a hearing problem tries to get het life back together after a car accident that killed her husband.
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
deaf, sexual abuse, family relations, hopes, mute or deaf, misfit, introspection, opposites attract, life is a bitch, society, love and romance, single parent ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A tense night for Kyung-mi and her mother (both hearing-impaired) when they fall prey to a charismatic murderer in the dark alleys of Seoul.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
serial killer, deaf, suspense, deafness, mute or deaf, murder witness, attempted murder, witnessing a crime, mother daughter relationship, murder, witness, murderer ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 88 min.
Style:
uplifting, emotional, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
deaf, teenage love, unlikely couple, opposites attract, couples, rebelliousness, young lovers, hopes, artists and showbiz, rebellion, youth, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
the philippines, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A summer day in Italy. The camera follows the deaf-mute Giacomo and a childhood girlfriend Stefi closely – in the woods, by the river – without wanting to disrupt the mystery of their relationship, between restrained sensuality and childhood ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, sincere, realistic, semi documentary ...
Plot:
youth, deaf, teenage life, love and romance, young lovers, summer, mute or deaf, forest, countryside, friends, best friends, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, touching
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
boy, deaf, suspense, forensics, runaway, friend, criminal, friendship, teenage life, estrangement, choice, disabled person ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sexy, visually appealing, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
coming of age, father daughter relationship, sign language, deaf mute, musician, deaf, audition, love, bicycle, brother sister relationship, aunt niece relationship, deafness ...
Time:
18th century, 90s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, argentina, tokyo, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Víctor is a child who is found casually roaming by a country road. His mother, Patricia, a well-known lawyer specialist in media trails, realizes about it and she goes to the hospital, where explains to the police that Víctor is deaf, and ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
kidnapping, lawyer, deaf, seaport, police, school, blackmail, pregnant woman, court, suspense, boyhood, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, catalonia
Is relevant ?
542K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, surprise ending, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, creature, monster, suspense, survival, sign language, survival horror, fear, silence, pregnancy, alien, creature feature ...
Time:
near future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york state
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Drama about a deaf girl who witnesses the audacious murder of a policewoman.
Style:
serious, captivating, bleak, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, deaf, police investigation, police detective, dishonesty, organized crime, corruption, murder mystery, police corruption, law enforcer killer, mute or deaf, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
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